For decades, commuters wishing to travel from the city's north to its east (and vice versa) have had to deal with bottom-clenching traffic jams on Lat Phrao and Srinakarin roads, two heavily congested roads which form the city's main north-east corridor. In 2005, in a bid to clear up some of the congestion, the Yellow Line was first proposed initially as a heavy underground rail service but it wasn't until 2012 that substantial plans to build it as a monorail link along the north-east corridor began to surface.
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The Yellow Line elevated monorail built to serve the Lat Phrao-Samrong route will begin a month-long trial run, with free rides for commuters, on June 3, Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand governor Pakapong Sirikantaramas said on Wednesday.
The test run of Yellow Line monorail train in Lat Phrao – Samrong section has started since last Thursday (November 25) from the maintenance depot next to Sri Iam station in Bangkok’s Bang Na district, a news source has revealed.